RESSLab at 16th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering in Chile

Prof. Lignos co-organized two special sessions as part of the conference; one on the "Assessment of the Probability of Structural Collapse" and one on the "Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering". Special talks included (a) the collapse behavior of steel columns as part of steel frame buildings: Experiments and numerical models; (b) Approximate method for performance-based seismic assessment of steel moment-resisting frames. Three other papers co-authored by Prof. Miranda (Stanford University) and Prof. Rogers (McGill University) were presented. The papers discussed the assesment of the probability of structural collapse in earthquakes and the characterization of cold-formed steel framed/wood-sheathed floor and roof diaphragms. A poster related to the Full-scale testing of deep wide flange steel columns was also presented. Hiroyuki Inamasu presented on the Experimental Investigation of Bolt-Configured Naturally Buckling Brace with Gusset Plate Connection. Please check out the papers from our website.